My thoughts on current events

Today is April 26th, 2010. There are some current events i would like to comment on. Agree...don't agree...i don't care. I'm just pondering what's going on int he world.

Boobquake:
An Iranian Cleric was quoted in the following words: "Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,".
I hope honestly that you are as confused at that insurmountable leap to conclusion as I am. Revealing clothing (aka, anything short of a burka)....causes...earthquakes. I guess all those trailer rocking situations really do have the earth moving.
And this rather unrealistic claim has spawned a blogger into challenging it. She has invited all women to wear revealing clothing today betting the odds that there won't be an earthquake today.
While i completely disagree with the cleric, i also have to say that rolling the dice betting that there WON'T be an earthquake somewhere today is rather silly. Since there are thousands of micro quakes throughout the world every single day. And what constitutes a real earthquake? And we would all look mighty foolish if there were to just HAPPEN to be a major earthquake today. But I digress, I'm joining in anyway.

I have little interest in being modest just because certain cultures want to blame one side of an equation for the resulting problem. Adultery takes two. And since the odds of there not being an apocalyptic earthquake today are overwhelmingly in our favor, I'm not adverse to testing our side of the theory that he is just another ignorant bigot from an oppressed culture who is making wild claims in an attempt to scare us into doing what he says.
Reminds me of that Kansas pastor who says soldiers are dying because of homosexuals. What-(expletive)-ever.

Steven Hawking is concerned about meeting aliens:
Arguably one of the most intelligent men in the world has expressed his concern about aliens ever showing up here on earth. Comparing them both to Columbus arriving in the Americas, and to hostile nomads. He suggests that they could either introduce diseases that we would be unable to fight or to take over the earth in search of resources, perhaps violently. This certainly is an about face from the fanciful world of star trek where curiosity doesn't kill the captains. And diplomacy is the most powerful weapon.
My NaNoWriMo story this year happens to involve an alien species arriving at the planet. And this article has left me with some serious questions to answer about the species i created.